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Using state administrative and pharmacy data bases to develop a clinical decision support tool for schizophrenia guidelines

Molly FinnertyBureau of Evidence based Medicine and Clinical Guidelines, New York State Office of Mental Health, Albany 12229, USASchizophr Bull 28:85-94. 2002

..Our experience suggests that administrative and pharmacy data bases, despite their limitations, can be used to develop guideline-based clinical decision support tools for schizophrenia with high physician acceptability...

..1 inpatients per 1,000), despite the ending of state-level oversight. On long-term follow-up, polypharmacy increased, eventually rising to 9.2 inpatients per 1,000 after 36 months, but remained well below baseline levels...